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Editor’s note

After 4 July 2012, 8 October 2013 was another important date in the life of particle physicists when the work of François Englert and Peter Higgs was recognised with the 2013 Physics Nobel Prize. At the same moment, the thousands of LHC particle physicists felt also rewarded for their hard work in finding the Higgs particle. Much more than just another member in the particle zoo, the Higgs boson discovery has opened the door to a whole new range of questions, which the LHC and the linear collider will try to solve. Find out more in this issue about how a linear collider can help in study of the Higgs particle and read again our special “Higgs discovery issue” of 5 July 2012.

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From CERN: CERN congratulates François Englert and Peter W. Higgs on the award of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics

CERN congratulates François Englert and Peter W. Higgs on the award of the Nobel prize in physics “for the theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin of mass of subatomic particles, and which recently was confirmed through the discovery of the predicted fundamental particle, by the ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider.” The announcement by the ATLAS and CMS experiments took place on 4 July last year.

Director's Corner

Yes!

by Hitoshi Murayama

The Nobel Prize in Physics this year has gone to François Englert and Peter Higgs for their theoretical discovery of the Higgs mechanism, recently confirmed through the discovery of the predicted fundamental particle, by the ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN's LHC. The linear collider community, represented by Deputy LCC Director Hitoshi Murayama, congratulates the two theorists on this appropriate award for the monumental work.

Around the World

ILC moves forward in Japan

by Hitoshi Murayama and Satoru Yamashita

Many of you have seen a media report titled “Science council seeks more study of Japan’s role in particle collider". You may have wondered what this means for the ILC. Hitoshi Murayama and Satoru Yamashita explain that it’s much better than it sounds.

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Stairway study

by Barbara Warmbein

After publishing the physics and detector chapters for the CLIC Conceptual Design Report organised only through working groups on various different study topics and detector R&D projects, the CLIC physics and detector community has spent the last months putting a new organisation in place: the CLIC detector and physics study. So far, 19 institutes have joined the study that is hosted at CERN. Frank Simon, MPI Munich, was elected as the chair of the Institute Board and Lucie Linssen as the first spokesperson. At their meeting at CERN last week, some 50 representatives from the various institutes met at CERN to discuss progress on physics simulations and detector development.

Video of the week

2013 Nobel Prize in Physics announcement

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2013 was awarded jointly to François Englert and Peter W. Higgs "for the theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin of mass of subatomic particles, and which recently was confirmed through the discovery of the predicted fundamental particle, by the ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN's Large Hadron Collider"

In the News

  • from Bloomberg
    9 October 2013

    Still, the rest of the world isn’t sitting still. Japan is considering a $7.8 billion linear collider project of its own. CERN is open to helping to set up the facility and cooperating on research, Heuer said.

  • from Kahoku Shinpo
    9 October 2013

    今年のノーベル物理学賞に、ピーター・ヒッグス名誉教授らが決まった8日、「国際リニアコライダー(ILC)」の誘致を目指す宮城、岩手両県など東北の関係者からは「ILCの誘致実現に弾みがつく」と期待の声が上がった。(On the news of the Npbel prize in physics was awarded for Dr. Higgs, local officials in Iwate and Miyagi prefecture said that it will boost the activities to invite the ILC to Tohoku area.)

  • from The Deccan Chronicle
    8 October 2013

    Peter Higgs, he said, loves the idea of the International Linear Collider. “The ILC is the biggest thing to happen to particle physics since the Large Hadron Collider. Although we’re sure that the LHC has found a Higgs Boson, we still aren’t sure if it is the actual one.

  • from The Deccan Chronicle
    8 October 2013

    India’s role in this will be to expertise on crucial technology – the superconducting radiofrequency cavities, within which the particles are accelerated and made to collide. (…) The world community has chosen this as the technology for the ILC, thereby propelling India’s role through her expertise. Japan’s scientific community has expressed a strong interest in hosting the ILC on the outskirts of Tokyo and is awaiting approval from its government.

  • from NHK
    8 October 2013

    ヒッグス氏らのノーベル物理学賞の受賞が決まったことについて、東北大学大学院の山本均教授は「今回のノーベル賞の受賞でILCの役割が注目され、高い技術を持つ日本への誘致に大きな弾みになる」と述べ、誘致の取り組みが進むことに期待を寄せました。(On the new of the Nobel prize in physics went to Dr. Higgs, Hitoshi Yamamoto of Tohoku University, said “This news will draw attention to the ILC, and will boost the activity to invite it to Japan.”

  • from Panorama.it
    8 October 2013

    “Una possibilità che si sta discutendo è quella di costruire in Giappone la prossima grande macchina destinata ad accelerare le particelle, il cosiddetto Linear Collider. Insomma, si va sempre più nella direzione di dar vita a laboratori che ospitino esperimenti con la partecipazione di scienziati da tutto il pianeta.” (One option that is being discussed is to build the next big machine aimed to accelerate particles in Japan, the so-called Linear Collider. In short, we’re getting more and more on the path to giving life to laboratories that host experiments with the participation of scientists from all over the planet. )

  • from {Science²} (Blog de Libération)
    8 October 2013

    “(…) Michel Spiro [explique les] possibilités qui «sont discutées par la communauté. La première permettrait d’aller plus vite mais serait restreinte à un maximum de 500 GeV (milliards d’électronvolts): c’est une technologie appelée ILC (Collisionneur linéaire international), un accélérateur linéaire électron-positon basé sur des cavités supraconductrices comme celle qu’utilisent les Allemands à Hambourg pour faire du rayonnement synchrotron.” (Michel Spiro [explains the future] opportunities which “are discussed by the community. The first would go faster but would be restricted to a maximum of 500 GeV (billion electron volts). It is a technology called ILC (International Linear Collider), a electron-positron linear accelerator based on superconducting cavities like the one used by the Germans in Hamburg for synchrotron radiation.”

  • from Futura Sciences
    4 October 2013

    On parle beaucoup ces derniers temps d’un autre accélérateur linéaire, mais qui reste pour le moment à l’état de projet, bien que les travaux nécessaires à sa conception soient arrivés à terme. Il s’agit de l’International Linear Collider (ILC). Il s’agit en fait d’un collisionneur formé de deux accélérateurs linéaires. Long de presque 31 km, il devrait produire des collisions d’électrons et de positrons à des énergies d’au moins 500 GeV. Les chercheurs aimeraient bien pouvoir réduire drastiquement les coûts et les tailles des machines qui lui succéderont.

  • from Science World Report
    3 October 2013

    The successor to the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) – the world’s most powerful particle accelerator – will most likely be based in Japan. But this does not mean the end of CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, near Geneva.

  • from The Japan News
    2 October 2013

    The Science Council of Japan called on the Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Ministry to spend two or three years studying whether the nation should take the initiative on an international project to build a next-generation particle accelerator.

  • from Kahoku Shinpo
    2 October 2013

    文部科学省は1日、「国際リニアコライダー(ILC)」計画を検討する省内タスクフォースに、外部有識者による作業部会を設置することを明らかにした。省内の体制を強化して、ILC計画の実現に向けた課題を検討する。下村博文文科相が同日の定例記者会見で示した。(Minister of Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Hakubun Shimomura said in the general press conference that the government will create a working group of advisors with specialists from various fields to review the possible issues on the realisation of the ILC in Japan)

  • from Nikkei
    30 September 2013

    日本学術会議は30日、「国際リニアコライダー(ILC)」の日本誘致について「是非を判断するために、2~3年かけて集中的な調査検討が必要だ」とする提言を文部科学省に提出した。(Science Council of Japan submitted the report to the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, that the government should take two to three years for an extended review for Japan to make a decision)

  • from Scientific American (blog)
    30 September 2013

    Right now, the leading proposal for a post-LHC project is the International Linear Collider, a pair of 11-kilometer-long electron guns pointing at each other as if in a subatomic duel. Earlier this year, planners staked out a site in the north of Japan. The Japanese government views the project as a post-tsunami economic stimulus for the region.